Wrapping up #ica25 with @rzhprfshr.bsky.social presenting our work with @joebayer.bsky.social reviewing the research under the broad umbrella of “social connection”. And perfect timing because the paper was published TODAY at @natrevpsychol.nature.com 🥳 rdcu.be/erayE

I'll be presenting work with @joebayer.bsky.social on affordances of constant connectivity 📶 in the top paper panel for mobile comm at 3pm Sunday in Centennial H (Regency 3)

Come to @uvapsychology.bsky.social and work with the AMAZING new hire we snagged, @ericmshuman.bsky.social!

I’ve seen a few of these anecdotes now. I know you can disable copy+paste in Qualtrics via JavaScript, but if Qualtrics can hear me, a “disable copy+paste” survey options button within the Qual survey design platform would be cool beans

Looks like the program for @saa2025leuven.bsky.social is out (saa2025.com/Program) - how is anyone supposed to decide which sessions to choose - too many great papers! 🤩

Ever read a psychological study and thought, “Wait… isn’t this just proving what we already knew?” Yeah, me too. So I wrote a paper about it. Turns out, asking “Are bad things bad?” isn’t groundbreaking. Features phubbing, technoference, & other pseudoempirical stars. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...

Does smartphone use make people feel lonelier? Or does loneliness predict smartphone use? We combined experience sampling data with smartphone usage data to examine the bidirectional association between well-being and smartphone use over time. Published in @apajournals.bsky.social Emotion! 🧵 👇

Cold morning? 🥶 🌅 Time to jump on the socials apparently! New study documents how social media activity is related to bad weather 🥵 ☔️ 🥶 ❄️ “extreme temperatures and added precipitation each independently amplified social-media activity” #commsky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Following Ohio’s SB1 (the anti-diversity & inclusion, anti-tenure, anti-strike legislation for higher ed)? the Harding (overflow) room at the Statehouse is already almost full! Live testimonies also at ohiochannel.org/live/ohio-se... Bill overview here: www.legislature.ohio.gov/download?key...

WHAT WE VALUE: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change has been featured on The Next Big Idea Club’s April 2025 Must-Read Books! Order it here: www.amazon.com/What-We-Valu... View the list of featured books here: nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/nex... #neuroscience #communication #psychology #science

What a ride yesterday's #ica25 notifications have been 📈📉 Sadly we won't present our data linkage study on semantic affinity of Netflix content with daily stressors in Denver - so check out our preprint for a test of #moodmanagement theory with computational methods 😊☹️💻

☎️ Calling all early career scholars! Want to talk casually to an #ICAMobile senior scholar about a mobile communication project you're working on (at any stage)? Fill out this form by January 21st + we'll match you with a senior scholar to provide feedback on your project: forms.gle/YTA5qEXKhLen...

🧪 My collaborators don't use social media, so I’m excited to share the 🧵on a just-published paper from a then-undergraduate (Stefan Blancha), myself, and Professor Raymond Mar. This is a refined version of Stefan’s undergrad thesis study on #doomscrolling behavior...

People have most meaningful connection on messaging apps (eg Facetime) and they report less loneliness. People who are highest on loneliness and have less meaningful connections are on platforms like TikTok To learn more: psychoftech.substack.com/p/social-tec...

Nature Human Behaviour joins Psych Science, the first two journals that publish Psych papers that will be part of @i4replication.bsky.social ‘s replication games. Sign up if you want to be part of the replicating team!

"Do we need proper oversight and regulation of social media? You bet...But I can only conclude that despite the heated bipartisan rhetoric of blame, scapegoating social media is more convenient to politicians than turning their shared anger into sensible legislation." www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/o...